I feel like it might be a good idea to move the first tanuki gaurding the lever slightly to the right so that the lever is visible, otherwise some players might be low on health and choose not to fight thus missing out on the shortcut.
Also (I'm aware it's probrably a glitch but) it would be kinda nice if the thing where you could jump just before charging an attack to air strafe and get some additional movement while charging was added back since I felt like it made the combat a bit more interesting 👉👈 (ofc it's fair enough if that's not the direction you want to go)
Also also it might be a good idea to require a charged attack to parry the tanukis (or at least reduce the parry window) since currently it's possible to just hit them repeatedly and can't attack back most of the time.